Tusk did not provide any further details about the nature of the threat or which of the 18 border crossings between Poland and Ukraine was affected. The prime minister added that the incident was just a taste of what is to come and noted he had received a “fairly precise report” from the CIA regarding […]
Continue ReadingMoroccan authorities said on Thursday there were “no facts” establishing its involvement in the migrant rush into Spain’s North African exclave of Ceuta in July. It was the kingdom’s first official response to a Spanish police report accusing its security forces of “total permissiveness” when the mass crossing took place.
Continue ReadingAerial footage shows a massive sinkhole in front of a house in Malibu, California, reportedly belonging to US actor Nicolas Cage. The actor bought the home in 2024, according to a report in the New York Times. The driveway of the beachfront house collapsed on Tuesday morning, according to local authorities. In a written statement, […]
Continue ReadingThe EU on Wednesday said it was granting Spain 115 million euros ($130 million) in emergency aid to help bolster border security and assist returns after the massive migrant rush into the north African exclave. More than 70,000 migrants crossed into Spanish territory from Morocco on July 30 and 31 in an unprecedented rush that […]
Continue ReadingGoogle will buy up to half the electricity produced by one of Finland’s nuclear power plants as part of a record €13bn (£11bn; $15bn) investment in the country’s AI infrastructure, the company announced. The US tech giant said the package would fund three new data centres, expand an existing site and support energy projects to […]
Continue ReadingThe EU earlier this year agreed on wide-ranging new rules allowing countries to establish “return hubs” in third countries like Albania and Rwanda, to which unsuccessful asylum seekers and other failed migrants can be sent to. It has also drawn up lists of safe countries from which would-be refugees are unlikely to be accepted apart […]
Continue ReadingThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says North Korea has built a new two-storey uranium enrichment facility at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex. The new building is said to be capable of housing up to twenty-eight centrifuge cascades, which are used to enrich uranium. The nuclear watchdog’s director, Rafael Grossi, called the continuing production of […]
Continue ReadingHis comments come just days after a landslide victory for the AfD in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt in which the party just fell short of winning an absolute parliamentary majority. “Remigration” is a far-right concept that can range from deporting people without legal status to the mass removal of immigrants and their descendants. The […]
Continue ReadingThat is seen, by AI companies such as Google-owned Deepmind, as one of the possible triggers for a scenario in which AI vastly exceeds human intelligence (known as artificial superintelligence) instead of just matching it (known as artificial general intelligence). “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end […]
Continue ReadingWarning: This story contains descriptions of abuse Meta ran hundreds of paid ads with artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse imagery, including several in India, over the past 10 months, a new report by US-based campaigners has found. The report comes two months after the Indian government ordered Meta to remove all ads and content promoting […]
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